HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Scientific Revolution

Introduction / Thomas Dixon -- pt. I. Categories. 'Science' and 'religion' : constructing the boundaries / Peter Harrison -- Science and religion in postmodern perspective : the case of Bruno Latour / Jan Golinski -- pt. II. Narratives. Religion and the changing historiography of the scientific revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- The late Victorian conflict of science and religion as an event in nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history / Frank M. Turner -- Islam, Christianity, and the conflict thesis / B. Harun Küçük -- pt. III. Evolution and creationism. Evolution and creationism in the Islamic world / Salman Hameed -- Understanding creationism and evolution in America and Europe / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- pt. IV. The politics of publishing. A global history of science and religion / Sujit Sivasundaram -- The Scopes trial beyond science and religion / Adam R. Shapiro -- Science, religion, and the history of the book / Jonathan R. Topham -- pt. V. Ways forward. Sciences and religions : what it means to take historical perspectives seriously / Noah Efron -- Simplifying complexity : patterns in the history of science and religion / Ronald L. Numbers -- What shall we do with the 'conflict thesis'? / Geoffrey Cantor.

John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar caused by Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) are two of the most famous examples. Taking account of recent scholarship in the history of science, Brooke takes a fresh look at these and similar episodes, showing that science and religion have been mutually relevant in so rich a variety of ways that no simple generalizations are possible.